System Testing Jobs

System Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 629 652 699
Rank change year-on-year +23 +47 -29
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 216 239 671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.31% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 154 151 371
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £43,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £78,438 £70,000 £77,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £86,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +24.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

System Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing System Testing.

Salary trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +2 195 £60,000 +9.09% 49
UK excluding London -44 160 £52,500 - 39
Work from Home +78 105 £70,000 +33.33% 19
South East +37 68 £80,000 +45.32% 15
London +69 43 £60,000 +3.45% 11
Midlands -38 31 £42,500 -22.73% 9
North of England -6 28 £52,000 +1.46% 8
West Midlands -27 20 £55,000 - 5
North West -13 19 £48,500 -19.17% 8
South West -21 16 £38,878 -24.51% 4
Scotland -36 13 £43,500 -13.00% 2
East Midlands -21 11 £42,500 -7.61% 4
Yorkshire +49 8 £48,750 +26.62%
East of England -9 4 £60,341 -3.46% 1
North East -12 1 £52,500 +20.69%

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.70%) ArcGIS
2 5 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.46%) TPMS
Applications
1 33 (15.28%) Simulink
2 12 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.78%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.93%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.46%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.46%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.46%) SAP GTM
3 1 (0.46%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.46%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.46%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 29 (13.43%) Azure
2 23 (10.65%) Power Platform
3 21 (9.72%) AWS
4 20 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (6.02%) PowerApps
7 8 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.70%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.78%) GitHub
9 4 (1.85%) SaaS
10 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.93%) Apigee
11 2 (0.93%) BrowserStack
11 2 (0.93%) GCP
11 2 (0.93%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.46%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.39%) HTTP
1 3 (1.39%) Internet
1 3 (1.39%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (0.93%) Skype
2 2 (0.93%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.46%) DNS
3 1 (0.46%) Intranet
3 1 (0.46%) Modbus
3 1 (0.46%) MQTT
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.87%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.94%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.09%) MySQL
4 11 (5.09%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.63%) GIS
5 10 (4.63%) Power BI
6 8 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.78%) Redis
8 5 (2.31%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.93%) Pentaho
11 2 (0.93%) SAP Data Services
12 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.46%) Lumira
12 1 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 14 (6.48%) Visual Studio
2 13 (6.02%) JIRA
3 9 (4.17%) Ant
3 9 (4.17%) Git
4 8 (3.70%) Postman
5 5 (2.31%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (1.85%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.85%) JMeter
7 3 (1.39%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.39%) Gatling
7 3 (1.39%) Locust
7 3 (1.39%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.39%) Selenium
7 3 (1.39%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.39%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.93%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.93%) TestRail
9 1 (0.46%) GitLab
9 1 (0.46%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.46%) SoapUI
General
1 118 (54.63%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.30%) Finance
3 44 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.80%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.56%) Banking
6 12 (5.56%) Front Office
7 11 (5.09%) Marketing
8 9 (4.17%) Electronics
8 9 (4.17%) Law
8 9 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.78%) Retail
11 5 (2.31%) Back Office
11 5 (2.31%) Military
12 4 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.39%) Aviation
13 3 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 81 (37.50%) Developer
2 39 (18.06%) Software Developer
3 37 (17.13%) Analyst
4 32 (14.81%) Embedded Developer
4 32 (14.81%) Embedded Software Developer
5 28 (12.96%) Software Engineer
6 17 (7.87%) Architect
6 17 (7.87%) Lead
7 16 (7.41%) Senior
8 13 (6.02%) Tester
9 12 (5.56%) Applications Developer
9 12 (5.56%) Consultant
10 11 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.63%) .NET Developer
11 10 (4.63%) Systems Analyst
12 9 (4.17%) .NET Applications Developer
12 9 (4.17%) C++ Developer
13 8 (3.70%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.70%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.89%) .NET
2 18 (8.33%) HTML
3 16 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 16 (7.41%) CSS
4 15 (6.94%) Hibernate
5 14 (6.48%) .NET Framework
6 12 (5.56%) XML
7 10 (4.63%) JSON
8 9 (4.17%) ASP.NET
8 9 (4.17%) React
8 9 (4.17%) RESTful
9 8 (3.70%) .NET Core
10 7 (3.24%) WCF
11 6 (2.78%) Blazor
11 6 (2.78%) HTML5
11 6 (2.78%) Node.js
11 6 (2.78%) PostGIS
11 6 (2.78%) Svelte
11 6 (2.78%) Vue
12 5 (2.31%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.24%) NHS
5 6 (2.78%) SCADA
6 5 (2.31%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.85%) Equities
7 4 (1.85%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.39%) Derivative
8 3 (1.39%) FPGA
8 3 (1.39%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.39%) VHDL
8 3 (1.39%) Wiki
9 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.93%) FMCG
9 2 (0.93%) Online Banking
9 2 (0.93%) PKI
10 1 (0.46%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (27.78%) Linux
2 36 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
2 36 (16.67%) Windows
3 8 (3.70%) Unix
4 3 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (55.09%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (31.02%) DevOps
2 67 (31.02%) Software Engineering
3 51 (23.61%) Continuous Integration
4 47 (21.76%) Test Automation
5 46 (21.30%) Agile
5 46 (21.30%) Collaborative Working
6 41 (18.98%) Code Quality
6 41 (18.98%) User Acceptance Testing
7 39 (18.06%) Computer Science
8 36 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 35 (16.20%) Signal Processing
10 34 (15.74%) Machine Learning
11 32 (14.81%) Embedded Software Development
12 26 (12.04%) Unit Testing
13 24 (11.11%) Project Management
14 23 (10.65%) Software Testing
15 20 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (9.26%) SDLC
16 19 (8.80%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.48%) Java
2 63 (29.17%) C++
3 58 (26.85%) Python
4 57 (26.39%) SQL
5 50 (23.15%) C#
6 41 (18.98%) C
7 37 (17.13%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.63%) Rust
9 8 (3.70%) MATLAB
9 8 (3.70%) VB
10 4 (1.85%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.85%) VBA
11 3 (1.39%) Ada
12 2 (0.93%) COBOL
12 2 (0.93%) PHP
12 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.46%) ABAP
13 1 (0.46%) RPG
Qualifications
1 74 (34.26%) Degree
2 72 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 39 (18.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (16.20%) DV Cleared
5 31 (14.35%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.31%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.85%) ISEB
9 4 (1.85%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.39%) HND
11 2 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.93%) CISSP
11 2 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.93%) MCSE
12 1 (0.46%) AAT
12 1 (0.46%) CBAP
12 1 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.93%) GDPR
3 2 (0.93%) GRC
4 1 (0.46%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.46%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.46%) MISRA
4 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.31%) Firmware
2 3 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.85%) Terraform
2 3 (1.39%) Control-M
3 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.93%) WSUS
4 1 (0.46%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 38 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 32 (14.81%) Xilinx
3 22 (10.19%) Oracle
4 17 (7.87%) SAP
5 8 (3.70%) ESRI
5 8 (3.70%) Workday
6 5 (2.31%) Databricks
7 4 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.39%) AVEVA
8 3 (1.39%) Denodo
8 3 (1.39%) Talend
9 2 (0.93%) Adaptive Insights
9 2 (0.93%) Informatica
9 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.46%) Allen-Bradley
10 1 (0.46%) Ariba
10 1 (0.46%) Concur
10 1 (0.46%) IBM
10 1 (0.46%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (0.46%) Siemens